Living specs don't give any guarantees, yet they still "pave the cow paths" while keeping ridiculous bugs and behaviours for backwards compatibility, and breaking existing specs for convenience. It all depends on the person dealing with the problem.
Nobody expects compatibility with existing specs, why should they for WebSQL? Especially when it's a living standard.
If those things were true, we would all use the same browser by now and never see new standards, and Blink and Webkit would have never diverged from another.
Open source quarrels basically guarantee a steady supply of competing forks.
Living specs don't give any guarantees, yet they still "pave the cow paths" while keeping ridiculous bugs and behaviours for backwards compatibility, and breaking existing specs for convenience. It all depends on the person dealing with the problem.
Nobody expects compatibility with existing specs, why should they for WebSQL? Especially when it's a living standard.
If those things were true, we would all use the same browser by now and never see new standards, and Blink and Webkit would have never diverged from another.
Open source quarrels basically guarantee a steady supply of competing forks.